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French Money

pounds) = 12.29 litres, or 21 pints 12 ounces
pounds) = 12.29 litres, or 21 pints 12 ounces

In France contains 10 drachms; the scruple 20 grains. money is reckoned in francs and centimes.

The centime is the Too part of a franc, 5 centimes being represented by a sou; so that 20 sous are equivalent to a franc. The same system of coinage is also at present in use in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy.

The old Paris pound was divided into 16 ounces; the scruple into 24 grains. The pound by which drugs are weighed in Turkey is the Tchegy, equal to 4957 grains, and is divided into 100 drachms, each drachm into 16 killos, and each kiilo into 4 grains.

The obolo is half a Spanish scruple; 3 silicua make 1 obolo, and 4 grains a silicua. The commercial pound in several countries

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